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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 1.60 of the Budget
2018 Red Book, whether the funding for state-funded schools to cover pension costs
will be allocated from the £4.7bn extra DEL in the reserve for 2019-20.

<p>Additional funds will be allocated to the Department for Education to meet the
proportion of the expected £4.7 billion in additional pension costs that falls to
them. The Department for Education are proposing to provide state-funded schools with
funding to cover their additional pensions costs for the rest of this Spending Review
period.</p>

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference paragraph 5.11 of Budget 2018
Red Book, how much and what proportion of the additional funding for air ambulance
services will be allocated to South Yorkshire.

<p>The Department of Health and Social Care are developing and launching an application
process and will be in touch with air ambulance charities and the Association of Air
Ambulances to confirm details and timings in due course. The amount of funding awarded
will depend on the amount requested in bids from air ambulance charity trusts, subject
to approval from the Department of Health and Social Care.</p>

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2018
to Question 185590 on A303 and Lower Thames Crossing: Private Finance Initiative,
whether private finance will be used for the upgrade of the A303 and the Lower Thames
Crossing.

<p>The government is committed to increasing private investment in infrastructure
through a range of models. The 2017 National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline
estimates that almost half of the UK’s £600 billion infrastructure pipeline is expected
to be financed by the private sector.</p><p> </p><p>The Budget announced that the
government will no longer use Private Finance 2 (the successor to the Private Finance
Initiative) for new projects, as the model was inflexible and overly complex. Private
finance will not be used for the upgrade of the A303 and the Lower Thames Crossing.</p>

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2018
to Question 185543 on Defence finance, whether the reprofiling of the Dreadnought
programme bringing forward spend into the early years, set out on page 30 of The Defence
Equipment Plan 2018, contributed to the decision to allocate £1bn for Defence in Budget
2018.

<p>The £1bn additional funding for MoD will be used to invest in a number of key priority
capabilities, one of which is Dreadnought. It is for MoD to decide how much of the
additional funding is for Dreadnought, which they will do as part of their normal
budgeting process.</p><p> </p>

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2018
to Question 185543 on Defence: finance, if the Secretary of State for Defence decides
to spend all or part of the additional funding on the Dreadnought programme whether
this spend will be accounted for as additional to and separate from the £10 billion
Dreadnought contingency.

<p>The £1bn for Defence announced at Budget 18 is additional funding for MoD to ensure
that the Armed Forces can continue to modernise and invest in key priority capabilities.
The final allocation and treatment will be agreed through MOD’s normal budgeting process</p><p>
</p>

<p>As the Chancellor announced at Budget 2018, an additional £500 million will be
made available to allow departments and the devolved administrations to continue to
prepare for EU exit, taking the total for 2019/20 to £2 billion. As a result of this
announcement, the Treasury will have invested over £4 billion in EU exit since 2016.</p><p>
</p><p>Treasury Ministers and officials have regular discussions with all of the devolved
administrations on matters of importance to the economy across the UK, including EU
exit. We are working collaboratively with the Northern Ireland Civil Service to assess
the resource requirements of the Police Service of Northern Ireland to prepare for
the UK leaving the EU. Allocations from the £2 billion to departments and the devolved
administrations will be announced in due course.</p>

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times his Department has met with
representatives of the Police Service of Northern Ireland to discuss resource requirements
for policing after the UK leaves the EU.

<p>As the Chancellor announced at Budget 2018, an additional £500 million will be
made available to allow departments and the devolved administrations to continue to
prepare for EU exit, taking the total for 2019/20 to £2 billion. As a result of this
announcement, the Treasury will have invested over £4 billion in EU exit since 2016.</p><p>
</p><p>Treasury Ministers and officials have regular discussions with all of the devolved
administrations on matters of importance to the economy across the UK, including EU
exit. We are working collaboratively with the Northern Ireland Civil Service to assess
the resource requirements of the Police Service of Northern Ireland to prepare for
the UK leaving the EU. Allocations from the £2 billion to departments and the devolved
administrations will be announced in due course.</p>

<p>As the Chancellor announced at Budget 2018, an additional £500 million will be
made available to allow departments and the devolved administrations to continue to
prepare for EU exit, taking the total for 2019/20 to £2 billion. As a result of this
announcement, the Treasury will have invested over £4 billion in EU exit since 2016.</p><p>
</p><p>Treasury Ministers and officials have regular discussions with all of the devolved
administrations on matters of importance to the economy across the UK, including EU
exit. We are working collaboratively with the Northern Ireland Civil Service to assess
the resource requirements of the Police Service of Northern Ireland to prepare for
the UK leaving the EU. Allocations from the £2 billion to departments and the devolved
administrations will be announced in due course.</p>

<p>The Government will introduce an entitlement to full funding for basic digital
courses from 2020. Adults will have the opportunity to undertake improved digital
courses based on new national standards free of charge.</p><p> </p><p>As is the case
for the English and maths adult entitlements, the new basic digital skills entitlement
will be funded through the Adult Education Budget.</p><p> </p><p>In the interim, we
will continue to support the provision of basic digital skills training for adults
in colleges and community learning centres across England through the Adult Education
Budget and other programmes.</p>

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the news report entitled
Raising motorway speed limit could boost economy, Treasury Minister says on Tory conference
fringe, published by the Mirror in October 2018, whether the Chief Secretary's comments
that raising the speed limit to 80 mph would increase national productivity represented
Government policy.